AMMAN, Dec 21, 2000 (LSN.ca) – Canada was a major sponsor of a lobbying effort in Jordan this week to get more nations to ratify the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court. The Jordan Times reports that the four-day international lobby effort was funded by Canadian and Swiss embassies in Amman and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation of Germany. The meeting included representatives from Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen, Palestine, Bahrain, Syria, Canada, Belgium and India.
The ICC will assume universal jurisdiction, even over countries that have refused to sign on to it, once 60 countries have ratified the agreement. The UN reports that as of December 20, 123 countries had signed on to the agreement with 25 countries having already ratified it.
For LifeSite reports on the ICC see: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/sept/000914.html#2 https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/sept/000914a.html https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/june/000630.html#2 https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/june/000616.html#1 https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/dec/991213.html#1 https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2000/mar/000314a.html
See the Jordan Times at: https://63.104.165.4/Tue/homenews/homenews6.htm